A new mandate put in place by the Biden Administration threatens to shut down Christian healthcare throughout the country. However, a federal appeals court has blocked Biden’s attempt to force Christian doctors to perform abortions. Performing abortions lies heavily outside of the scope of these Christian practices.
Christian medical leaders raised the alarm about a new pro-abortion mandate from the Biden administration that could shut down Christian health care throughout the U.S. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials planned to revoke a Trump administration rule that protected pro-life medical workers from being forced to kill unborn babies in elective abortions.
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit presenting Christian doctors challenging two Biden administration mandates. They say the mandate forces religious nonprofit and for-profit employers to pay for and perform surgeries, procedures, counseling, and treatments that seek to alter one’s biological sex and to do abortions — actions that violate their religious beliefs.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Biden abortion mandate on August 26, ruling that religious doctors could not be required to perform procedures like abortion that violate their beliefs.
The Biden administration had until November 25th to appeal the ruling and failed to do so — meaning the mandate is now blocked by that appellate court.
Meanwhile, in a second case against the gender mandate, a federal appeals court today permanently blocked the Biden Administration’s attempt to force religious doctors and hospitals to violate their conscience. concluding that the Administration’s plan would violate a key federal law protecting religious freedom. This is the second appeals court ruling blocking the mandate.
“The federal government has no business forcing doctors to violate their consciences or perform controversial procedures that could permanently harm their patients,” said Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket. “This is a common-sense ruling that protects patients, aligns with best medical practice, and ensures doctors can follow their Hippocratic Oath to ‘do no harm.’”
